Spiff

So. First little snag. As can be seen in the pictures above I made fille blocks and had made little cardboard templates to try and make sure the two sides would end up the same shape - but how do you know exactly what the right shape is?? My problem was that I ended up with some big indentations and had to put on two layers of first-layer-planking to make an even surface.

Now that I have reconstructed my Bounty Jolly boat buildlog, I will redo my Golden Star log.

I started building the Golden Star almost the same day I finished the jolly boat - getting hooked on this hobby 

It was rather a random choice to build this model - it was basically what the store had in my budget that I thought I could build. It is very much built as a learning process before I start on some of the ships I really want to build - the Bounty being one of them. Especially with regards to planking and the rigging - after the jolly boat the rigging on the Golden Star looks rather daunting - but thats equal to a good challenge

And it certainly has been a learning process already - mainly with the planking (but then, at the time of writing, the planking is "all" I have done  ).

Please feel free to comment or ask questions.

So time for some pictures:

For the stand I, copied and added text to, a map of the rute Captain Bligh and 18 crew took after the mutiny. I printed it on heavy paper and glued it on the stand so that the boat is over the map.

Also pics of the finished model.

Here are som pics of the hull stained and varnished and beginning the rigging and other details.

I was unsure of wether I wanted to use the brass nails or not, but ended up using them. They are not to scale, but I think it looks quite nice.

Hi Phil

Looks nice - I would like to build the Bounty at some point - I started of with the Jolly boat.

How come there is such big colour difference between the planks on the hull? Will you paint it below the waterline?

Some more pics. First my setup for keeping things flush against the bulwarks (fellow danes will recognise the bottles  ).

I choose to stain the ship to give it a slightly used look.

I thought I had more pictures of planking it, but there are only some from after finishing the planking. But I did take some of the difference between the sanded and non-sanded side.

The planks weretn completely flush, so seen up against the light the cracks show - wouldnt want to be in my boat! But you dont see the cracks when just looking at it normaly.

Hi all

Here is a brief reconstruction of my build log for my first wooden ship model, the Bounty jolly boat.

It will really mostly be the pictures, which I luckily still have, from the old log, but please feel free to ask if you would like comments or help on anything about building this fine little model.

When I started the model it was beautifull weather and I could sit outside in the sun and build away - nice! 

But as can be seen in the last picture (with text in) I was unsure of wether the frames should be flush with the top of the false keel, or have equal distance to the bottom of the false keel. After some friendly adivse from users of MSW I ended setting them with equal distance to the bottom of the false keel so that the planks would sit well on the frames.